This looks more artistic and eye-catching.

The "Collected Poems of Qiangzi" is too vulgar and not literary enough.

As for the price, there are fifty poems in total, and the price is eight yuan per book.

This price is relatively high for this era.

After all, less words, less paper, and lower costs.

What Cao Zhiqiang didn't expect was that after finalizing the publishing plan, Poetry Magazine, or rather, the Writers Publishing House behind Poetry Magazine, would publish books with such high efficiency.

He discussed the book publishing plan with the editor in the morning and signed the contract. In the afternoon, he got the ISBN. Then he started typesetting overnight that night, started production and printing on the third day, and officially published it on the fifth day.

It took five days to complete the entire process from negotiating the contract to publishing the book. This speed of publication simply shocked Cao Zhiqiang.

Good guy, really good guy.

It is worthy of being a writer's publishing house with people on it.

It is indeed the year 1983 when literary works flourished wildly.

This speed of book publishing alone will be unmatched by future generations.

This was still an era before computer typing and computer printing, everything was typesetting.

Now, this book "The Farthest Distance in the World" has been officially released for more than half a month, but its sales have already exceeded 200,000 copies.

That is to say, the printing quota for the first issue of trial sales has been sold out, but Xinhua Bookstores in various places are still urging the distribution of books, saying that too many people want to buy but cannot.

It is said that because the sales of this poetry collection are so popular in various places, the printing house has begun to print more copies, and this time the starting volume is one million copies.

In fact, the sales volume exceeded 200,000 copies in half a month, which has broken the record of a poetry publication published by a writer's publishing house.

So up to now, this poetry collection has been a huge success.

In this process, the writer's publishing house certainly made a lot of money, and the poetry magazine had a signature and participated in proofreading and typesetting, not to mention a share of the profits. The most important thing was to earn a reputation.

Especially the editor Yu who proposed to play the royalty-sharing system with Cao Zhiqiang and did not let Cao Zhiqiang run away, was even more generous in his reward.

Of course Cao Zhiqiang has gained both fame and fortune.

Not to mention anything else, even if the sales volume of this book does not increase in the future, according to the previous payment method, Cao Zhiqiang can still get the payment of 200,000 copies, which is 96,000 yuan!

Ninety-six thousand yuan, what is the concept of this in 1983?

A concept that can scare people to death!

Perhaps it was because of his excellent results that the editor-in-chief found him today and not only paid him his royalties in advance, but also rewarded him with many industrial papers and other related tickets.

That's right, the industrial volume of the cassette player that Cao Zhiqiang bought was given to him by the publishing house. It was a special reward and was not included in the royalties.

Otherwise, with Cao Zhiqiang's current factory income, it would be impossible for him to scrape together enough to buy the industrial roll of the tape recorder.

After all, industrial coupons, or purchase coupons, are issued in conjunction with your salary. Currently, one is issued every ten yuan, and is collected together with your salary.

Cao Zhiqiang's current salary of 30 yuan per month is normally only three industrial papers per month. He has only been working for less than three months, so it is impossible for him to buy a tape recorder worth more than 300 yuan.

Not only that, the editor-in-chief also sent him an invitation to participate in the upcoming "Youth Poetry Conference".

In addition to these, the editor-in-chief also said that he would be recommended to join the National Writers Association and become a formal member.

He also wanted to transfer Cao Zhiqiang to be the editor of the magazine.

It is said that in his situation, it is not troublesome to change jobs. Even if it is troublesome, Cao Zhiqiang can resign first and then go to work at the magazine.

The Poetry Magazine was a serious public institution at this time, and the official editors there were all professional staff.

In 1983, the enterprise establishment system was already more popular than the worker establishment system, and the identity of the magazine editor was also more respectable.

Basically, in a situation like Cao Zhiqiang's, as long as he agrees, the job transfer can be completed quickly without any problems.

Even if the factory really refused to let him go, Cao Zhiqiang could have forced his resignation first and then applied for a job at the magazine, just going through this formality.

Don't think this is deceiving people, it's really not the case.

In 1983, the establishment of government agencies, or cadre establishment, was relatively difficult to advance.

After all, this establishment requires cadre status.

During this period, those who could become cadres were either promoted by the army or went to school honestly, such as technical secondary school graduates, college students and above.

But the transition between workers and business staff is relatively simple.

Basically, as long as the counterpart unit wants you and is willing to give you the relevant establishment, then everything will be fine, and the academic requirements are not that strict.

For example, in his previous life, a poet surnamed Zhao, whose pen name was Sodao, first worked as a construction worker, and later became famous for writing poems, then became a magazine editor, career editor, and later became a company leader.

It can be adjusted back and forth, and the organization can be changed at any time.

But no matter how he changes, he will not be able to become a civil servant and become a member of the system. Without him, he will not have enough academic qualifications and academic ability!

In fact, if he didn't do it himself, he could have lived a comfortable life, but unfortunately, he became famous too early, his thoughts were too arrogant, and he was too cynical. He thought he was awesome, so he just fought against it, so he fell into it.

Having said that, the business editor is really good, but it's a pity that he doesn't have this ambition, but has his own plan.

In other words, a career-focused magazine editor can no longer satisfy his ambitions.

Therefore, Cao Zhiqiang only agreed to fill out the application form to join the Writers Association, but when it came to becoming an editor at a poetry magazine, he declined politely and said he would think about it again.

Did he tell others these things?

Did he show off?

Is he proud?

Not at all!

He has always done things quietly and never told outsiders.

This proves that Cao Zhiqiang is still a very low-key person.

However, because this was a contract signed by Cao Zhiqiang in person at the Writers' Publishing House in Beijing, and not a letter submission, when the royalties were paid, they did not send a remittance form through the postal service, but directly made a bank check.

Now, the check for 96,000 yuan is contained in a check holder and placed in Cao Zhiqiang's pocket.

If he took out the check for 96,000 yuan and the third uncle Yan Bugui saw it, he would be frightened and faint.

Not to mention, the royalties for short stories and popular science articles he had submitted to other magazines have now been paid back one after another.

These royalties gradually added up, especially the more than 2,000 that Science Illustrated just gave him, and he received a total of more than 6,000 yuan in royalties.

All added up, it's more than 100,000.

In this era where a household with 10,000 yuan is a wealthy person.

What is the concept of a household worth 100,000 yuan?

The concept of adding up ten thousand-yuan households!

Good guy, he originally set a small goal and wanted to become a millionaire first.

As a result, I accidentally jumped from a household worth 10,000 yuan to a household worth 100,000 yuan.

It can only be said that plans are not as fast as changes.

As for Cao Zhiqiang, it was for the sake of Uncle San that he didn't tell the truth before and didn't take out the check to scare him.

The remuneration of more than two thousand yuan was enough to shock him.

But having said that, Cao Zhiqiang really didn’t expect that writing poetry could be so profitable these days.

He only wrote fifty poems and published a book, which is more profitable than all the other works he published before combined.

The money he earned from writing so many works together was less than a fraction of a book of poetry!

No wonder those poets in the 1980s were so rich.

If you become famous for writing poetry these days, you will really be rich!

No, the fundamental reason is to publish a book, a popular book.

Therefore, there is no future in submitting articles to magazines. Even if it is a thousand words, it is meaningless. The most you can earn is some pocket money.

Publishing books and earning royalties is the way to go!

Sure enough, in 1983, the most reliable way to make money was by publishing books!
Chapter completed!